Figures are source of dispute as US defense department days ago reduced record of troops killed and wounded

  • IndustryStandard@lemmy.world
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    3 days ago

    All the targets you named are retaliations for similar targets bombed by those countries. High value economic infrastructure. The US and its proxies bomb a desalination plant in Iran and Iran bombs one on Kuwait. This is simple deterrence.

    As for those “hotels and residential buildings” the US has admitted to shelter their personell inside of civilian infrastructure. Which is a war crime by the way. You do not get to pin that one on Iran but on the US.

    Iran does not bomb random girl schools or commit blatant terror attacks against civilian targets without value in any way like the US and Israel have done.

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      Ah yes, the classic defense of squabbling children in the back seat. “They did it first!” Being the second to massacre a family of four isn’t appreciably more awesome than being the first. And it sure wouldn’t make a difference to either family.

      First you’re writing Iranian fanfic about how noble Iran never targets civilians. Now you’re saying, ‘Sure, they kill civilians but when they do it it’s the good kind of civilian slaughter!’ You’re twisting yourself into some wild shapes to carry water for a tyrannical dictatorship.

      And talking about the deaths of “random school girls” seems like little more than a propaganda point for you when you’ve discredited yourself about caring about civilian casualties at all. So long as they were killed by the right people, it seems like you wouldn’t think there was anything inherently wrong with it.

      This isn’t hard though: when the US targets civilians, it’s a war crime; when Iran targets civilians, it’s a war crime. I couldn’t give a single fuck who did it first.

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        You are intentionally misrepresenting Iranian actions and desperately trying to conflate them with the evils of the USA.

        The only tyrannical dictatorship being supported is by you.